The Texican's groom's cake. No, it did not include an asbestos filling, feral cats, or a fondant Judge Roy Hofheinz chomping on a cigar.

The Texican's groom's cake. No, it did not include an asbestos filling, feral cats, or a fondant Judge Roy Hofheinz chomping on a cigar.

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The demolition of this Dome wasn't contested at all. In fact, The Texican cut the first piece.

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This was the grooms cake for Clint Baker. He married Claire Jones of Austin. The reception took place at the Moody Theater.

This was the grooms cake for Clint Baker. He married Claire Jones of Austin. The reception took place at the Moody Theater.

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Groom's cakes are big business during wedding season

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It’s peak wedding season right now in the Houston area, with couples walking down the aisle from Conroe to Galveston. Increasingly the groom’s cake has become a bigger attraction at the wedding reception, with intricate designs and themes ruling the day.

Cake shops in Houston that specialize in wedding cakes say they’ve seen the groom’s cake become more prominent in the modern wedding landscape than ever.

“The groom’s cake has become a representation of what the groom is all about,” said Gina Yobbagy, with Cakes By Gina, here in Houston. “Sometimes we spend three times the amount of time making these than the bride’s cake.”

She said the cake is also a way for the groom to exercise an amount of power in an event that is dominated by the bride. It’s a way for him to stake a claim on at least one part of the wedding planning process, which can make one feel like a frog in a blender.

“It’s probably the only thing guys get to pick for the wedding. The other things like flowers, colors, linens, and dresses are all mainly done by the bride,” Yobbagy said.

Judging by the photos of the groom’s cakes that Pete Hobi with Alphorn Bakery in Midtown has made, a lot of guys in Houston use their cake to showcase their college alma mater.

“I think the guys just want to show their personality, whether it be their love of sports, music, fishing, hunting or cars,” said Hobi. He said that making an edible version of Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin was an ambitious feat, considering it had to feed 400 wedding guests.

Which begs the question, do Longhorns abstain from eating an Aggie cake, or do they eat out of spite? If you are a Houston Texans fan, do you partake in a slice of a groom’s Dallas Cowboys or New Orleans Saints cake? I say you don’t. It’s bad luck.

Bobby Jucker with Houston’s Three Brothers Bakery said groom’s cakes are spreading east and west now, thanks to the magic of social media.

“Down south, grooms cakes are the norm. The East and West Coasts are finally catching on, as they attend their friends’ weddings in the south and see photos of their Southern friends’ weddings,” Jucker said.

Jucker said that he’s never had to turn down any groom’s cake requests. They can usually make a cake work, even if it’s crude as crude can be. If some of his decorators may not want to do it, he’ll step in.

“I had a groom ask me to make a cake that looked like something you’d see in an adult movie,” Jucker said. “I’ll let your imagination wander, it was seriously crude.”

He’s really proud of the oil derrick cake they made with real fire coming out of it.

His wife, Janice, said that shop gets routine requests for an armadillo cake, like the one in the weeper flick Steel Magnolias.

Food history research site Food Timeline writes that the idea of groom’s cake originated in the southern United States among the elite in the 19th century. In those early days, it was seen as a way for the bride to have more variety at the reception’s dessert table.

In 2014, it’s the man little island he’s staked out for himself in a sea of his partner’s special day.